Lavenham

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I've got Ryan at home with me all week and then he starts school next Monday.  I may not get much stamping done this week unless he wants to stamp with me, we'll see.

Lavenham is a little town in England that was used in the Harry Potter movies for parts of Harry's hometown, Godric's Hollow.  You can see my original pictures here.  I kept the layout super simple because sometimes that's all you need!  We have a 5x7 print of the picture of the church hanging up in our living room, how do you like that sky in the photo?

Today's color palette:  Certainly Celery, Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral, and Dapper Denim.  Had to go with the Cantaloupe and Coral to match some of the crooked houses.

Have a great day, peeps.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely Letters Alphabet, Secret Garden, Simple Stems
Ink:  Dapper Denim, Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White
Paper:  Certainly Celery, Dapper Denim, Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe, Sweet Sorbet DSP
Accessories:  Secret Garden dies

Friday Flashback: Secret Garden

Hey y'all, happy Friday.  This week's Friday Flashback stamp set is Secret Garden.  So let's hop to it!

Also features Perfectly Penned, Positively Chevron

 Let's start off with some shiny gold chevrons, shall we?  I think the Strawberry Slush flowers really pop against the lighter colors and the gold.

Also features Simple Stems, Blessings from Heaven, Gorgeous Grunge

And here's a less successful card; there are matching Secret Garden Framelits and the stamp set Simple Stems works with them too.

Also features Sweet Serendipity

And for the last part of the Flashback, I made this one for the Sweet Serendipity flashback a little while back.  So that's it for digging around the archives, and here is today's brand new card:

This time I hand-cut the flowers instead of using the Framelits because my little girl dog parked herself right behind my chair and I couldn't get up (I'm absolutely certain she does that on purpose).  I need a birthday card for my MIL, so I turned to this week's Create with Connie and Mary color challenge:

I did only use SU! products, though the stamps are retired; they don't specifically say that's against their rules but if it is then they can throw paper scraps at me.  I love it when Elegant Eggplant shows up in color challenges, which happens next to never so I had to play along.

I also really liked this week's CAS(E) This Sketch:

So that's it for me today, folks.  I need to go vacuum the house (hopefully the vacuum won't try to knock me down the stairs this time) and get my Thanksgiving shopping list ready.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Secret Garden, Happy Everything
Ink:  Island Indigo, Versamark
Paper:  Island Indigo, Elegant Eggplant, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Gold EP, Dimensionals

Quick & Cheery

I must have been in the mood for really quick cards yesterday; I made three that only took about 10 to 15 minutes each.  So here's today's super-fast card:

Can't beat silver glimmer paper for the immediate wow factor.  I was going to stamp Positively Chevron in white on the Lucky Limeade card base, but then I remembered this pattern from last year's Summer Smooches DSP, and why make it harder than it has to be?  So much faster this way. 

For my color inspiration, I used the challenge palette from Color Throwdown:

And paired it with this no-muss, no-fuss fun Retro Sketch:

Et voila!  Done.  Better yet, I'm kind of in love with this card, which is a lovely and unexpected bonus for something that took almost no time to put together.  :)

Have a fabulous day, friends!  Thanks for checking out Snapdragon Stamps today.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Simple Stems, Sweet Essentials
Ink:  Melon Mambo, StazOn Black
Paper:  Lucky Limeade, Basic Black, Whisper White, Summer Smooches DSP, Silver Glimmer paper
Accessories:  Secret Garden & Banners Framelits

Because I needed more flower stamps?

Every year, it happens.  There's a stamp set or two in the SU catalog that I haven't given a second glance all year long, but when it goes on the retiring list, all of a sudden I *must* have it.  Because I am a lemming.  So this lemming jumped off the cliff and got the Secret Garden bundle *and* Simple Stems from the Occasions catalog.  I think I must have seen some card or project somewhere with one of those items on it that made its way into my subconscious and prompted me to buy them, but I have no idea where that might have been so I'll just blame the Internet in general.

So anyway, here's a card with some new toys that are now retiring--and in the case of the Secret Garden bundle, I'm pretty sure it's already sold out.  Probably because of lemmings like me.  We travel in packs.  Wait, pack of lemmings?  Herd of lemmings?  After an exhaustive 5-minute Google search, I came across the suggestion that it be called a plummet of lemmings.  And also found out that lemmings are usually pretty solitary and they don't jump off cliffs of their own accord, so this whole paragraph is a waste of space except for that first bit.

I digress.  Peekture!

I tried embossing that flower on So Saffron cardstock with Pool Party EP and it just didn't do anything for me, so Pool Party on Basic Gray wins.  This card took me forever to make, it was just a pill from beginning to end but I think it ended up okay.  I picked the hexagon embossing folder only because I hadn't used it yet.

My colors are courtesy of the last-ever challenge at Dynamic Duos:

And I used the sketch from the Paper Players:

Sooo I didn't put the sentiment in the same place as it is on the sketch.  Oh well!  I'm going to move on to something that's less persnickety with me today.

Thanks for stopping by.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Simple Stems (largest flower), Secret Garden (smaller flower around sentiment), Blessings from Heaven, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:  Versamark, Smoky Slate, So Saffron
Paper:  Pool Party, Smoky Slate, So Saffron, Basic Gray, Whisper White
Accessories:  Pool Party EP, Secret Garden Framelits, Hexagon EF, Subtles Candy Dots, Dimensionals